Exegi Monumentum ære Perennius ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution 1917-1918 PHILADELPHIA FOUNDERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION LIST OF OFFICERS, MANAGERS, DELEGATES, ALTERNATE DELEGATES, STANDING COMMITTEES AND COLOR GUARD, 1918-1919 OFFICERS AND MANAGERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, 1888-1918.......................13-14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTIETH ANNUAL MEETING, AND Report of THE BOARD OF MANAGERS, APRIL 3, 1918.. ANNUAL SERMON, PREACHED IN THE Washington MEMORIAL CHAPEL, VALLEY FORGE, PA., BY THE REV. W. Herbert Burk, B. D.........75-82 Object of the Society T being evident, from a steady decline of a proper celebration of the National Holidays of the United States of America, that popular concern in the events and men of the War of the Revolution is gradually declining, and that such lack of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of time and the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from foreign countries as to the neglect, on the part of descendants of Revolutionary heroes, to perform their duty in keeping before the public mind the memory of the services of their ancestors and of the times in which they lived; therefore, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution has been instituted to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in the military, naval and civil service of the Colonies and of the Continental Congress, by their acts or counsel, achieved the Independence of the country, and to further the proper celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and of prominent events connected with the War of the Revolution; to collect and secure for preservation the rolls, records and other documents relating to that period; to inspire the members of the Society with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers; and to promote the feeling of friendship among them. |